Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
Brooklyn boutique design and production company Coed Studios takes on the task of rebranding the state of Connecticut with this manifesto film, a thoroughly modern take on stop-motion animation produced thru CT agency Cronin. [Watch]
Taipei-based director/designer Audis Huang, who dropped this delightful event open for Acer last year, returns for more CG wonder – this time for another Taiwanese electronics brand, ASUS and their new VU Series monitors. [Watch]
Just when you thought the big budget holiday ad feels were done for the year, director Dan Marsh and Hornet swoop in with a painterly CG treatment for Air Canada about two tree ornaments who just want to spend Christmas together. [Watch]
The team at London CG studio Found re-imagine Ralph Lauren’s 888 Madison Avenue flagship store and its storied windows to frame oversized products rendered in obsessive detail for the brand’s holiday gifting global campaign. [Watch]
Motion designer/director João Vaz Oliveira teams with Lisbon animation house Dialogue to craft an atmospheric music video that transitions from 2D into 3D for “Blasphemy”, a track by Portuguese artists Moullinex and GPU Panic. [Watch]
The animation competition launched by Pink Floyd to mark the 50th anniversary of their landmark album The Dark Side of the Moon just got way more interesting with the posting of these two clips by German artist/animator TheInsaneum. [Watch]
Barcelona-based art director/designer Santi Zoraidez, who we first met thru his slick and whimsical film for Vitra, just dropped this quick blast of CG fun for the online dating app Hinge, acclaimed for its Nobel-Prize-winning matching algorithm. [Watch]
In their latest crazed cinematic for Supercell, Axis Studios and director Olly Reid drop what they call an “homage to the 90’s style hip-hop music video aesthetic” for the 2023 Clash of Clans Hammer Jam event. [Watch]
Enhancing 3D animation with AI, director Diogo Kalil and the LOBO crew opened the 2023 Ciclope Festival in Berlin with this trippy sequence the director describes as “an instigator piece that brings more questions than answers.” [Watch]
Culver City VFX studio JAMM bring their CG creature skills to this jaunty holiday spot for US smart TV brand VIZIO directed by Chris Balmond thru agency David&Goliath with Imaginary Forces crafting the new animated logo mnemonic. [Watch]
Continuing their work for the World Wildlife Fund, director Yannis Konstantinidis and the NOMINT animation team in London mix 3D-printed stop motion and live-action atmospherics into a haunting message about the climate crisis. [Watch]
If you need a retreat from the rush and stress of your work week, Steelworks creative directors Nidia Dias and Miguel Rato have just the thing – a peaceful, CG fantasy tour through the “Worlds Of Japan”. [Watch]
Riff Raff Films’ directing duo The Sacred Egg and The Mill, whose recent collaboration for Topgolf we featured in Stash 162, are back for another intricate mix of VFX and partying – this time for Smirnoff through McCann North America. [Watch]
Toronto poet/composer Benjamin Hackman teams with Barcelona animation house Alla Kinda to recount a personal commuting mishap that leads to a frenzied yet thoughtful monologue on the rush of modern life and what it all might mean. [Watch]
